Fired an M1 Garand today after reading about the role it played in WWII. Remarkable how much more efficient it was than the German bolt action rifles. My instructor does reenactments and was super knowledgeable. And the range had zero partisan political stuff, which is my baseline for patronage.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

Love to give advice to a sex criminal [🎁] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

Another fastball from Jeffries. The more they drop legislative Hill speak the better.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Trying to get ahead of that Joyce Carol Oates dunk

New job alert! Today I started as the new managing editor of @votebeat.org, a nonprofit news site that covers election administration and voting rights issues.

“Did they really believe that this war would end wars?” youtu.be/zRmJwqVbtQI?...

so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway

[at the National Cryptologic Museum] this is high key code coded

Hell yeah brother

Mooooooom Dave’s trying to news influence me make him staaahhhhp

Button on an older relative’s walker. From the Vietnam era.

New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago www.404media.co/the-latest-d...

the UK spy agency has 15,000 Bonds but the one the story follows is simply the guy who gets lucky over and over again, setting him up for his most ridiculously dangerous mission yet, which no one except a guy on a massive heater would take

you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it

this is just a guy from portland

the reactionary centrists with cushy opinion gigs couldn't make it through a 15 minute live discussion with a randomly selected progressive operative, political scientist or Resistance-era precinct captain

CHOTINER: So your colleagues voted to make a sacrifice to the Blood King. MURPHY: We have different constituencies. Many of them represent workers at the blood altars. CHOTINER: Aren't they getting sacrificed later? MURPHY: That's a little speculative. CHOTINER: The Blood King said so last week.

Often appreciate Sanders, but he is a Senate institutionalist. This is about as far as he'll go in publicly pushing members of his caucus. He doesn't do disruptive floor actions. He lets unanimous consent agreements go through. He doesn't pick those fights (but at least he build outside power).

This is why ousting Schumer isn't enough. Democratic senators don't pressure each other much, they have weak leadership by design, and they want to preserve arcane Senate rules that let them hide behind process. Without primaries or massive outside pressure, this is where they'll be.

:: getting burned in effigy by an angry mob :: okay wow, so your anger is very valid and I want to start by acknowledging that

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

A commendable Edmund Fitzgerald cover. (The sinking was 50 years ago today.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...

I would simply not piss off my base instead of telling my base to shut up after I pissed them off but hey I’m not a senator. (And this is one of the better senators!)

I agree with this but would settle for "you have to go someplace that sucks to do it." If you want to do some stupid six-leg parlay you should have to say it aloud to a person through a little microphone at an OTB that's lit like the MTA offices in the original Taking Of Pelham 123.

Bugonia was excellent. Crusher actors and takes a lot of risks.

Mayor Secretary Pete…..welcome to the resistance

This gets at the heart of the kayfabe senators are putting on and how they hide behind process — and each other — in ways that should eventually lead to full filibuster nuking

Dem senators are in a dangerously out of touch information silo especially the handful who still hang out on X: The Big Wet Nazi App

Reupping The Ringer plan: Senators don’t want to be jerks to each other? Easy solution. You step down. Governor appoints a comedian. They troll everyone mercilessly during a six day filibuster. Ted Cruz is crying. Republicans cave. Comedian steps down. Governor reappoints you. Everyone wins.

The idea that voters are going to have a specifically rational, policy-based response instead of just a "screw the incumbent party" thermostatic midterm election is basically innumerate at this point.

Echoing some points I made yesterday. Sen. Kim is a great examples of a center-left Democrat who pushed out some ossified leadership and reformed his state party as part of his run.

I want a Ms. Rachel media training video with puppets and zero change in tone

Republicans: Give us what we want or we shoot this puppy Democrats: Well what are you gonna do it’s a puppy better compromise [six months later] Republicans: Hey we need to talk again Democrats: Wow that is a lot of puppies oh my god is that a howitzer

The caucus’s deference to one another is the problem not just Schumer. They’re not going to elect a leader who will publicly call them out for hiding behind off-cycle and retiring members. Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.

Every short-term shutdown cave leads to worse long term consequences. Classic ratchet effect.

The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.

Senate primary recruitment is so much tougher than for other races. But if there’s any cycle where someone goes for it instead of waiting their turn it should be this one.

inside you are two Angus Kings

good statement; caving on the heels of a bunch of odd-year electoral victories, in particular, is baffling

Sen. Coons is a no, but this is the kind of enabling cover I'm talking about. If other senators were willing to go on TV and call them out, the cavers would be likely to back off. The level of deference and privilege they extend to one another is actually corrosive.

I wonder if the other senators are giving Schumer cover because of how much pavement he ate last time he went on TV to explain a bad deal like this

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

IMO the bad deals don't happen if a dozen other Democratic senators are out there ragging on the cavers by name. Even the handful of progressive senators rarely if ever go there -- the body remains an elitist, anti-democratic institution.

Purging the miscellaneous cable box, thumbing my nose at god, daring something to break